Following is The New York Times obituary of Murphy Anderson.

"Murphy Anderson, Longtime Artist for DC Comics, Dies at 89"
By George Gene Gustine, October 27, 2015

Murphy Anderson, a comic book artist best known for drawing superheroes for DC Comics from the 1950s to the ’70s, died on Thursday in Somerset, N.J. He was 89.

The cause was heart failure, said his son, Murphy III.

Born in Asheville, N.C., on July 9, 1926, Mr. Anderson began drawing professionally in 1944 for Fiction House, a pulp publisher that had entered the comics field in the late 1930s. He followed that with a two-year stint, from 1947 to 1949, on a “Buck Rogers” newspaper strip before landing at what would become his longtime home, DC Comics, which was known at the time as National Comics.

Mr. Anderson would pencil or ink nearly every major series the company published, including Superman, Hawkman and The Brave and the Bold, which introduced the Justice League of America.

He also worked closely on a multitude of cover drawings with Julius Schwartz, the editor who revitalized DC’s superheroes in the mid-1950s.

With the writer Gardner Fox, Mr. Anderson in 1964 created the sorceress Zatanna, the daughter of a hero magician who appeared in the first issue of Action Comics in 1938. Zatanna has been seen on various animated television series and in the live-action series Smallville, about Superman’s formative years.

The comic book historian Mark Evanier noted that at DC, which was often fussy about the style in which celebrated characters like Superman or Batman were rendered, Mr. Anderson was the go-to artist because he could reliably draw them “on model.”

Perhaps his best-known drawing was done outside the comic book industry, for the cover of the first issue of Ms. magazine, in 1972: a striking image of Wonder Woman under the headline “Wonder Woman for President.”

In addition to his son, Mr. Anderson is survived by his wife of 67 years, Helen, of Martinsville, N.J.; two daughters, Sophie Robicheau and Mary Anderson; two grandchildren; and a brother, Kenneth.

A pencil and ink artist of American comic books during the 'Silver Age' of Comics that began after World War II, Murphy Anderson was especially interested in fantasy and science fiction. He has worked both on comic books and comic strips, and among his characters are Hawkman, Adam Strange and Green Lantern.

In the late 1940s, he drew the Buck Rogers comic strip, which theoretically was a special privilege because he had been such a Buck Rogers fan in his youth. However, the pay was low, and he only stayed for two years, 1947 to 1949. He returned briefly in 1958, staying just a year.

Murphy Anderson was born in North Carolina and studied briefly at the University of North Carolina. As a teenager, he traveled to New York several time and visited with comic book publishers. His first job was with Planet Comics, and he drew Star Pirate, which was comedy and space opera.

During World War II, he served in the Navy beginning 1944, and then moved to Chicago where he took the Buck Rogers job, working for Dick Calkins. He resettled in New York City, where he did comic-book art for DC Comics including Lars of Mars, Atomic Knights and Captain Comet.

In the 1960s, he worked for Batman. Gradually he moved away from comics, and formed his own company, Murphy Anderson Visual Concepts.


Source:
Ron Goulart, American Comics From 1897 to the Present, p. 9